SPORTS LINE
It’s a grand time for Milwaukee.
The Brewers are in first place with a comfortable lead, they’ve won both home series against the Chicago Cubs, and they’re hitting grand slams at a pace that no one has ever seen. The Brewers upped their remarkable run of grand slams to five in a span of eight games when. Brice Turang went deep with the bases loaded on Sunday. The wild run is easily the best such surge in franchise history. Only once before has a Brewers team hit five grand slams in the span of a month when the 1995 team hit five from Aug. 2 to Sept. 2. Turang joins Rhys Hoskins, Jake Bauers, and Jackson Chourio to hit the grand slams on this homestand. Turang also hit one last weekend against the Padres while the team was on the road. Turang joins Bauers as the two-time grand slam hitter in the lineup this season. Turang started this stretch of grand slams last Saturday against San Diego. It was his first grand slam of the season. Then Rhys Hoskins followed with a slam on Monday against the Rangers. Then Jake Bauers followed with a slam off the scoreboard on Wednesday. Jackson Chourio hit his first career grand slam on Friday against the Cubs to lead to a Brewers win, and then Turang followed again on Sunday. They’ve only missed one opportunity for a grand slam over the last eight days and have taken full advantage of every single other chance. To put it in perspective, what the Brewers have done over the last eight days, accruing five grand slams, is something that has taken the Chicago White Sox three years to accomplish. Go, Brewers!
The Green Bay Packers unloaded.
Once again, following the dumping of Bret Favre off to the New York Jets, the Packers unloaded Aaron Rodgers and what are the results again? Rodgers missed his first required practice for the coming season and was substantially fined. Then he went online to reveal that he’d been going off to Peru, in South America, with a guru who was introducing him to a special local psych-reactive drug that would help him rid himself of some black effigy haunting his existence. Once again, the New York Jets are going to have their hands and heads full in the coming season, while the Packers sit back and reflectively smile.
